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Job Description

Provide personal services to ensure the safety, security, and comfort of airline passengers during flight. Greet passengers, verify tickets, explain use of safety equipment, and serve food or beverages.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 53-2031.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 51,620.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 0.00
• Currently, there are 113,390 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Flight Attendants”.

Also Known As…

• Flight Attendants
• Purser
• Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant
• In-Flight Crew Member
• Flight Attendant/Inflight Supervisor
• Flight Attendant/Inflight Manager
• Flight Attendant/Air Transportation Supervisor
• Flight Attendant, Inflight Services
• Flight Attendant and Union Safety Chairperson
• Flight Attendant
• Ramp Flight Attendant
• Meal Attendant
• International Flight Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “International Flight Attendant”

• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Prepare reports showing places of departure and destination, passenger ticket numbers, meal and beverage inventories, the conditions of cabin equipment, and any problems encountered by passengers.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.

Related Technology & Tools

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• Life preservers
• Water system shutoff valves
• Emergency locator transmitters
• Heaving life lines
• Emergency exit doors and windows
• Commercial cooking ovens
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
• First aid kits
• Portable oxygen equipment
• Refrigeration units
• Notebook computers
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Sliderafts
• Window exit escape ropes
• Blood pressure recorders
• Supplemental oxygen systems
• Nitroglycerin tablets
• Automated external defibrillators AED
• Megaphones
• Desktop computers
• Chemical oxygen generators
• Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
• Lavatory smoke detectors
• Intravenous IV administration sets
• Evacuation slides
• Refreshment carts
• Slideraft packs
• Protective breathing equipment
• Tourniquets
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
• Cabin management systems
• Storage compartments
• Sphygmomanometers
• Epi-pens
• Halon fire extinguishers
• Emergency rafts
• Electrical circuit breakers
• Flotation seat cushions

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